YOUR CART

Flooring Recommandations

Flooring Tips and Tricks

Recommended flooring are standout choices with high scores. Which one offer exceptional value ? When narrowing your choices, weigh features, price, and attributes that matter to you​.

Prefinished surfacePrefinished solid-wood flooring, vinyl, and tile flooring are better choices when it comes to formaldehyde emissions. Just be sure to use glues that don’t contain the gas when installing those materials.

Engineered surfaceEngineered-wood and laminate flooring products are made with glues and resins that can emit formaldehyde.

Our recommandations

​Top performers did best in our everyday abuse tests. For baths, we suggest vinyl or ceramic tile for its moisture resistance. Prices are per sq. ft.

What's behind our flooring Ratings?

Experts tested 60 models in flooring to see which ones perform best.​

We look for:

OVERALL SCORE

​Based mainly on resistance to wear, scratches, dents, stains, sunlight, moisture, and slips. Moisture resistance, not shown, is based on a damp sponge left overnight (minor spills) and soaked samples (long exposure). Slip resistance, not shown, is friction level using industry machine with leather and neolite. Displayed scores are rounded; models are listed in order of precise overall score.

RESISTS FOOT TRAFFIC

Denotes how quickly surface wear was noticeable after repeated passes with an abrasion machine.

​RESISTS SCRATCHES

​Indicates the ability to withstand dragged-object simulation.

​RESISTS STAINS

​​Indicates how resistant the floor is to staining from various products such as coffee, bleach, grape juice, motor oil, tar, and ink.

​RESISTS DENTS

​​Shows resistance to blunt and pointed weights dropped from various heights.

RESISTS TO SUNLIGHTS

​​Indicates how well the flooring stood up to exposure to high levels of ultraviolet light for roughly two weeks.